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Culture

Nigerian sight and sound

Dare Obasanjo posted music videos and photos from his recent trip home to Nigeria. The music is both English and Yoruba, the language of the Yoruba people, and one of the languages spoken in Nigeria. English is the official language. Dare referred to the music as Nigerian hip-hop and R&B. The first video definitely has a hip-hop feel, including […]

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Connecting Weblogging

It’s all about control

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I did not take the break I thought about, primarily because I was still involved with some communications. I also found myself somewhat obsessed with last week’s happenings. In the end, what saddened me the most about last week wasn’t about people so much as it was about honesty. Or […]

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Connecting Weblogging

Disappointed

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Update I think AKMA did a better job of taking a closer, calmer, more reasoned look at the situation than I did. I also wanted to point out Baldur’s post, which leads one to careful thought. Ronnie Bennett also has an excellent post on the subject. Earlier Kathy Sierra just just posted a note about […]

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Diversity Political

God and technology

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The recent posts that Norm Jenson and PZ Myers have been publishing demonstrate a disturbing trend in the United States: that discrimination against atheists is not only to be tolerated, but to be encouraged. Republican candidate Mitt Romney answered a heckler last week who challenged his religion by saying it doesn’t matter […]

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Diversity

What Women Want

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Any one of us only knows those in a small slice of this environment. How else? We can’t spend all day and all night reading weblogs. That way lies madness. As an example of knowing only a small selection of the voices, I was only recently made aware of the […]